Outside the Beltway

Some in Washington are claiming the intelligence community missed the warning signs of unrest in Tunisia and Egypt in what looks like little more than an effort to create scapegoats if things go wrong.

The debate over Senator Rand Paul’s proposed $500 billion spending cut plan has focused almost exclusively on one issue, and one nation.

The end game in Egypt may be beginning.

Today, Egypt seethed with rage, and the United States lost patience with its ally in Cairo.

The situation in Egypt is going from bad to worse.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s speech to the nation tonight seems destined to make the situation worse.

Al Jazeera English is kicking the butts of the American news networks on the Egypt story. Why?

The United States is facing a serious public relations problem among the Egyptian people.

One Republican Congressman is calling on President Obama to stand firmly behind our “friend” in Cairo, even though there’s little evidence we can trust him.

Mohammed el-Baradai had harsh words for Hosni Mubarak and the United States when he spoke today from house arrest.

The US has limited influence over events in Egypt–something that recent history should underscore (although not everyone appears to understand this fact).

The events in Egypt have led some to ask if the mere act of cutting off access to the Internet is, in itself, an human rights violation.

The Obama administration’s slow and cautious response to Egypt’s protest was frustrating. And correct.

The situatution in Egypt continues to escalate as the state strikes back at the prostests.

Anti-government protests raged in Egypt for a second day, and nobody seems to know where they’re headed.

Thirty years after the hostages were freed from captivity in Iran, the United States still hasn’t figured out how to deal with the Islamic Republic.

Inevitably, the Nazis made an appearance during yesterday’s debate over health care reform in the House. It’s time for it to stop, or at least time for the rest of us to stop taking seriously anyone who resorts to such arguments.

The Stuxnet virus that has set back the Iranian nuclear weapons program by several years at least appears to have originated as a joint project between the United States and Israel.

Moqtada al-Sadr is back in Iraq, and it’s a good thing we’re on our way out.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”